Child Wellbeing & Protection in Sport Club Tool

Once the self-assessment is completed your club can see where you sit in relation to the standards through a percentage and traffic light system. You can see the areas that need development, create an action plan and work towards ensuring you have a culture of providing safe spaces for children and young people and promoting their wellbeing. The action plan can be a standing agenda item at your club committee meetings to ensure that it’s not ‘forgotten’ about.
– You can see how well your club is doing against the standards
– You can develop an action plan specific to your clubs needs
– The action plan allows your club to focus on developing areas to meet the all the standards
– The action plan can be used to prioritise the development areas
– The action plan can become a constant item on the committee meeting agenda to keep safeguarding and wellbeing at the forefront
– You can promote to current and potential members that you are a safe and fun club
– The self-assessment tool and action plan can help tailor the support you need from Scottish Gymnastics

You will need a club email address to sign up to the self-assessment tool. The person who signs up becomes the ‘owner’ of the account. Only three people from your club can sign up to access and complete your club self-assessment so the other two people become ‘contributors’.
The safeguarding officer should be included in the discussions and completion of the self-assessment tool, including creating the action plan. We recommend the tool is used by your safeguarding officer, club manager or chair, and head coach.
The self-assessment tool has 67 questions across the eight CWPS standards. It can take between 30 and 90 minutes to complete depending how much discussion you have.
You don’t have to complete all the questions in one sitting although it may be better to try to do this. You can save your answers and go back to the self-assessment later.
Please note that once a question is answered and saved, you cannot change the original answer. As you create your own action plan, you can add actions and realistic and achievable timescales. You can also go back and update the actions at any time, for example, state they are completed, change timescales.

Scottish Gymnastics receives a quarterly report which shows which clubs have signed up to the CWPS tool, what stage they are at in completing the self-assessment questions, and their compliance percentage within each of the standards. Your action plan will not be shared.
Sportscotland can access your self-assessment but not your action plan. Children 1st can access self-assessments but do not know which club has completed it, only that it is a gymnastics club. The system works on a rolling four-year retention of data. If your club does not access your account within a three-year period, your data will be cleared.
Instant club overview
Your club’s development needs
Unique tailored feedback from Scottish Gymnastics
Relevant toolkits, guides, templates, links and videos to support your development
Tailored editable action plan where you decide the priorities for your club and plan for the future
Links to the team at Scottish Gymnastics to discuss your results and requirements
The tool and content has been designed by our team at Scottish Gymnastics to make it as relevant as possible to ensure it specifically meets the needs of member clubs.
It works on PC, tablet and smartphone so you can do it in the club or on the move.